The less demanding computer user does not need an expensive motherboard. A lot of the functionality of high-end motherboards will be left unused, therefore making it a waste of money. Fortunately there is enough to choose from in the lower segment. Today we take a closer look at ten motherboards with the Intel B250- and H270-chipsets.

Noblechairs claim to have listened to customers minor complaints from the EPIC and improved upon those areas with the ICON, namely the depth of cushioning used on the base and back, as well as a stronger base and steel construction, with a huge weight limit of 180KG (28 Stone). The styling has also changed, moving away from a "racing bucket seat" style, to something more elegant and stylish, altering the back support to allow for broader shoulders, while still providing the support you need and removing the harness holes.

Team Group are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, and in that time, they have steadily been growing in reputation due to their excellent products and services, a growth which is reflected in both their product lines and availability of Team Group products, aided by the Partnership with OcUK and Caseking Group. In a special collaboration between Team Group, Gibbo, 8 Pack, Caseking and OcUK, we have been presented with the Team DARK Pro '8 Pack edition', which is a cherry picked edition of the Team DARK Pro memory modules.

When it comes to accessories for our PCs one that I always seem to need is a card reader. We shoot quite a lot of photos and video here at ThinkComputers and if we chose to transfer these files directly from our camera it would take forever. That is where a card reader comes in, which can take advantage of a faster USB 3.0 connection. Today we have one such card reader from Unitek, but it also comes with a 3-port USB hub as well. This makes it the perfect accessory for all of your external storage needs for your PC. Read on and see if that turns out to be true!

In the past few days I have posted benchmarks showing how AMD's latest open-source Radeon Linux driver code is faster than their hybrid/proprietary driver for OpenGL and perhaps most excitingly is finally how AMD Radeon GPUs are beginning to really compete with NVIDIA GPUs on Linux and in some cases performing better against the GeForce competition than they do under Windows. This comes after years of work on their open-source driver stack and especially a lot of work done over the past year not only by AMD but also Valve and other open-source contributors to Mesa, their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end continues to be refined for compute and graphics, and the AMDGPU kernel driver. So here are the latest Windows vs. Linux gaming benchmarks on the Radeon side to see where things stand now with this latest code.

GTX 1080 Mini from Zotac is a highly compact, ITX sized graphics card powerhouse that delivers excellent framerates while still fitting into most small-form-factor cases. Zotac even included an overclock out of the box and the thermal solution ensures there is no throttling due to high temperatures.